Clean combustible waste, such as cardboard and clean wood that is collected separately, will be processed in the new air curtain burner.

Priced at $155,000, the equipment can be moved around the city, and does not emit smoke or other pollutants, the city said last week.

While the city is requesting that regular household waste be put into standard size garbage bags, city officials have also asked that paper products – cardboard, cereal boxes, juice and mill boxes, for example – be bundled when possible and put in a large blue bag.

City crews will now pick up cardboard and garbage on separate days: see the new schedule below.